Flood the Zone Fridays, brought to you by Karl Rove Posted by Ezra Klein George W. Bush has a new website up, and upon seeing it, you have to admit -- this is a campaign that "gets" the web. Their website consolidates many of the tools that the Democratic challengers and their supporters have been experimenting with, and they are well implemented. Particularly impressive is their Action Center, which has one the the coolest, most useful tools I've ever seen: If you scroll about halfway down the page, you'll see a field where you can input your zip code...

FRN Columnists' Corner "I, Gore. And I hate Bush! " by JohnHuang2Saddam is the victim of a smear campaign based on trumped up weapons charges by a President with no compunction for heaving unseemly accusations, said Al Gore Thursday in a sweeping policy address blasting the White House on issues ranging from Iraq to Iraq, including Iraq. Speaking before a militant audience of internet Fedayeenies at New York University, Gore condemned White House attempts to discredit Saddam by linking Saddam to al-Qaeda and 9/11, lamenting the guilt by association tack has left lasting but "false impressions" in "the public mind"...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - One month before the second anniversary of the Sept. 11 tragedy, the broadcast networks seem set to change the tone of their coverage of that event from focusing on the event itself and the memorials to looking more at policy issues in the aftermath of the attacks. The exact extent of the coverage is still uncertain as the networks await to hear from New York, Washington and Shanksville, Pa., on their plans for the day, but it is highly unlikely that ABC, CBS and NBC News will repeat their 2002 menu of broad live coverage...

<p>Wherever Administration Moderator went, he was greeted by huge, enthusiastic crowds of cheering people – people as far as the eye could see - reaching out to Administration Moderator and he reaching back at every opportunity. Administration Moderator has got the right stuff, he loved being with the FReepers and the FReepers loved being with Administration Moderator. There is a genuine connection between the Moderator and his message and the FReepers. Administration Moderator could capture the presidency in 2004!</p>

"You have heard it on Rush they have no ideas, no logic or answers, but now you can see it for yourself. There is more anti-Bush than anti-war sentiment, which proves they are clearly not protesting the butcher of Baghdad, but Bush's administration" http://www.brain-terminal.com/articles/video/peace-protest.html

• Field organization. Vice-President Al Gore may have won the 2000 New Hampshire primary — and subsequent primaries, which fed on the New Hampshire–generated momentum — thanks to a traffic jam. At least that’s what many Democratic operatives with experience in New Hampshire seem to think. Today, when people look back at the 2000 Democratic-primary season, the prevailing memory is of Gore trouncing former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley. But he beat Bradley in New Hampshire by just four points, a relatively narrow margin of 6395 votes. The bulk of these votes — more than 3000 — came from Hillsborough...

The Boston Phoenix out yesterday carries a dispatch by Seth Gitell that includes the following anecdote about the 2000 Democratic primary in New Hampshire. “Gore operatives had access to exit polls showing the vice president being defeated by Bradley. They also learned that while Democratic voters were voting in large numbers for Gore, independents, many of them upscale suburban voters, were voting for Bradley’s sophisticated brand of liberalism.” This they knew by early afternoon. Their solution? “The Gore team organized a caravan to clog highway I-93 with traffic so as to discourage potential Bradley voters from getting to the polls.”...

<p>Did 90 percent of Americans in 2000 really want Gore to concede? Or was the widely reported Fox News poll 'freeped?' A look at the opinion-skewing fad that seems to be giving conservatives the last laugh.</p>

consortiumnews.com Gore & the Need for a 'Counter-Media' Editorial December 19, 2002 In deciding not to fight for the office that many Americans feel was stolen from him two years ago, Al Gore may have been surrendering to the inevitable – that the national news media and the Republican attack machine would never let him win the White House.While understandable on a human level – who would want to go through what Gore did in 2000? – the former vice president's decision carries both short- and long-term dangers. For one, the national news media now can safely tuck away its...

ALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 16 — Al Gore told a story today that he had told many times, but he gave it a new ending.He recalled that in 1970, after his father lost a bitter Senate race in Tennessee, they paddled a canoe on the Caney Fork River near their home and mulled whether Albert Gore Sr. should stay in politics.As Mr. Gore recounted: "He said, `You serve 32 years in the Senate and the House and this happens and what do you do?' And my advice to him was, `I'd take the 32 years, Dad.' " Then came the...

Now that Algore has dropped out of the presidential race, many of you might be concerned as to what Mr. Gore will be doing for a living. It turns out that the real reason why Algore has dropped out of the race is so that he could devote full time to his real passion---writing movie reviews. We can now expect weekly movie reviews from Mr. Gore for at least the next couple of years. To see some of Mr. Gore's movie reviews from the last couple of years, please check out the BULLDOG BULLETIN ARCHIVES. There is a movie review...

NEW YORK, Dec 15, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- Al and Tipper Gore may have logged TV's longest screen embrace during their opening bit on "Saturday Night Live." Reunited in an NBC corridor after a few painful moments apart, the Gore lovebirds went into a clench while cast member Jimmy Fallon and executive producer Lorne Michaels looked on uneasily. "Maybe we should get them to stop," Fallon said, moments before someone zapped the former vice president with a stun gun. Total smooch time: 2 1-2 minutes. Gore included the "Saturday Night Live" host gig in his monthlong television...

<p>After Sen. Tom Daschle, South Dakota Democrat, created a stir by attacking Rush Limbaugh and other conservative voices in the media as somehow responsible for death threats to politicians like himself, his total absence of any evidence made him look ridiculous.</p>

WASHINGTON - Just as Vice President Gore is reappearing on the American political scene, a recent trip to Asia is prompting questions about a fund-raising flap like the ones that followed him after the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign. Mr. Gore visited Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China, last month for a forum focused on the nation’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Conference participants had the opportunity to have their photos taken with Mr. Gore in exchange for cash, the South China Morning Post reported. The sponsor of the event at the top of the list on the forum Web site, the...

Al Gore pulled an old play out of his Clinton-era book of political tricks, in an interview with the New York Observer last week. The reason he and his Democratic Party cronies are having a tough time lately, he explains, is because of a vast, right-wing media conspiracy against them. No, he didn't use exactly those words, as Hillary Clinton had six or seven years ago. But his take is pretty close. Same play, new spin. "The media is kind of weird these days on politics, and there are some major institutional voices that are, truthfully speaking, part and parcel...

Al Gore has promised if he runs again for the presidency, he's not going to hold back his opinions. He's going to "let 'er rip." If what he's been saying recently is any indication of the reinvented Gore, the campaign should be loads of fun to watch. Exhibit A: In an interview with The New York Observer, the man who would be leader of the free world declared the political press includes "major institutional voices that are, truthfully speaking, part and parcel of the Republican Party." He cited Fox News, The Washington Times and Rush Limbaugh, sneering that some...

NPR's Liasson & Williams Back Gore on Right-Wing Media Control There’s “some truth” to Al Gore’s conspiracy theory about media outlets getting their marching orders from Republican Party Chairman Marc Racicot, Juan Williams argued on Fox News Sunday. Mara Liasson agreed, explaining that what Gore was simply “expressing is deep frustration on the part of Democrats who are now truly out of power in Washington and they don’t have the kind of editorial voice representing them in the media...they can’t get their events covered, they feel that they can’t get their message out.” This from Williams and Liasson, an analyst...

Gore’s TV War: He Lobs Salvo At Fox News by Josh Benson Among the many problems facing the Democratic Party, according to former Vice President Al Gore, is the state of the American media. "The media is kind of weird these days on politics, and there are some major institutional voices that are, truthfully speaking, part and parcel of the Republican Party," said Mr. Gore in an interview with The Observer. "Fox News Network, The Washington Times, Rush Limbaugh—there’s a bunch of them, and some of them are financed by wealthy ultra-conservative billionaires who make political deals with Republican administrations...

COUNTING EVERY READER Al Gore is said by associates to be surprised that his newest books on family aren't selling well. The pair of books co-written with wife Tipper Gore (one of them is a coffee-table book intended to serve as companion to the "heavier" tome) are apparently headed toward the remainder bin as bookstores move more popular and potential Christmas gift fare into the line of sight of customers. "We aren't selling any," says a sales associate for Borders Books in Bethesda, Maryland. "And we thought given that this is kind of a political book and that it's by...

The former leader needs more than a makeover, says Orla Healy ITCHING for a rematch with George Bush in the 2004 presidential race, Al Gore last week reemerged from his Garbo-esque exile kicking off a 25-day, 12-city book tour to promote Joined at the Heart, which he wrote with his wife, Tipper. "The Gore book tour is like the trailer for a movie," says his former press secretary Chris Lehane. "It is interesting and entertaining but could also be a preview of what is to come. In the parlance of marketing and branding, it is a soft launch." Soft launch?...

Former Vice President Al Gore, as he nears a decision on whether to seek the presidency again, has begun formulating plans for a possible campaign that would be much more informal in style and more ambitious in its ideas than his unsuccessful race in 2000. he would "do it in a very different way" by devoting most of his time to small meetings and "relaxed conversations" with individuals and families. And he said he would offer bolder ideas, like his recent endorsement of a single-payer system that would fundamentally restructure health care in America.Indeed, it appears that if Gore runs,...

<p>November 18, 2002 -- Al Gore says he's not sure he'll run for president in 2004, but he sure sounds like a candidate - blasting President Bush for a "catastrophic" economic policy, a "horrible" foreign policy and an "immoral" position on environmental issues.</p>

Excerpt from Barbara Walters interview with Al Gore and family, which airs tonight on 20/20 at 10:00 p.m. ET/9:00 p.m. CT (check your local listings). The following exchanges, while sure to interest Note readers and historians, actually won't be part of tonight's 20/20 broadcast, so you can read them only here and now: WALTERS: I'm not sure that people realize that while you were in the residence of the Vice President [during the Florida recount] there were crowds of people outside screaming at you. What was that all about? AL GORE: Well, this was the Republican response to what was...

The Republicans may have control of Congress, but Al Gore has control of the future. The former Democratic vice president has a guest role on Sunday's season premiere of Fox's animated sci-fi comedy "Futurama," supplying the voice of his own disembodied, scientifically preserved head. (ROFLOL !) "I think I may have a future as a disembodied head," Gore joked in an interview with The Associated Press on Friday. "I'm not sure that any political calculation would have steered me toward this part, but it was great fun doing it." "Futurama" chronicles the 30th-century life of a hapless time-traveler named Fry,...

DAYTONA BEACH -- Former Vice President Al Gore stepped to the podium at Bethune-Cookman College on Sunday looking to supercharge fellow Democrat Bill McBride's campaign for governor. But another election, the closest and most contested in Florida and the nation's history, remained on the minds of many in the crowd of 250. Gore still gets their vote almost two years later. Under an old oak tree, supporters held signs that read: "Welcome President Gore!" and chanted: "Gore in Four." Sans his college-professor beard and most of his post-election girth, Gore tried to diffuse the lingering anger and despair. "I'm Al...

Ex-Vice President Al Gore is scheduled to host NBC's "Saturday Night Live" next month, the comedy show announced on its Web site this weekend. "Robert DeNiro and former Vice President Al Gore are slated to host December episodes of 'Saturday Night Live,'" according to a report by Saturday-Night-Live.com's Sean Bradley. An accompanying SNL schedule shows Gore slated to appear December 14. The broadcast would likely give Gore his largest TV audience since he conceeded the presidential election exactly two years to the day from that date. Gore watchers have said that he'll make up his mind on whether he'll...

Former Vice President Al Gore called on Thursday for a broad public health act to mobilize defenses against a possible biological attack, saying the existing threat will grow with a U.S. invasion of Iraq. In the latest in a string of policy speeches as he ponders another White House run in 2004, Gore cited intelligence estimates that the threat of a bioterror attack from Iraq would jump to "pretty high" after a U.S. strike on Baghdad. "We need a national defense public health act to respond to the immediate threat in the wake of an attack against Iraq," Gore said...

September 24, 2002 1:40 p.m. On Wednesday Tom Daschle blew a gasket on the Senate floor. According to the Democratic Majority leader, his fury stemmed from an article by the Washington Post's Dana Milbank which — surprise! — cast President Bush in a bad and unfair light. Milbank wrote: "Four times in the past two days, Bush has suggested that Democrats do not care about national security, saying on Monday that the Democratic-controlled Senate is 'not interested in the security of the American people.'" "You tell those who fought in Vietnam and World War II they are not interested in...

Gore's speech telling No limit to former vice president's muddle-headedness By Jonathan Shapiro There is a very great difference between avoiding a hard task on principle and shirking it for personal reasons. The courageous do the former. The selfish do the latter. In 1941, in the face of an overwhelming national consensus, Rep. Jeanette Rankin, R-Mont., an ardent opponent of fascism, nevertheless cast the lone vote against military action following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. She did so, she said, because in a democracy war should never be declared unanimously. Compare such heroism to the tawdry appeasement offered up...

But two years since Vice President Gore and Senator Lieberman shared a ticket for the highest offices in America and they have emerged on different sides in the most important debate in the land, whether to go to war against Iraq. In one of the most spectacular public collapses in memory, Mr. Gore repudiated not only his past positions on the Iraqi threat but also the unified front the Democratic Party had signaled, in the weeks following September 11, it was prepared to maintain with President Bush. Before an audience in San Francisco Mr. Gore came out in opposition to...

Editorial: The Gore Doctrine Savannah Morning News THE NATION this week got a glimpse of what a post-9/11 America would look like under a President Gore. It wasn't pretty. In a major, hyped-in-advance speech Monday to San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, Al Gore sharply criticized the Bush administration's policy on Iraq and its prosecution of the war on terror, without offering any substantive alternatives. In doing so, he didn't just break with the president, a majority of the American public and even leading members of his party, including his running mate in 2000, who support the policies. He broke with himself,...

September 26, 2002 -- DISTASTEFUL as it may be, some notice should be paid to the speech that the formerly important Al Gore delivered Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. This speech, an attack on the Bush policy on Iraq, was Gore's big effort to distinguish himself from the Democratic pack in advance of another possible presidential run. It served: It distinguished Gore, now and forever, as someone who cannot be considered a responsible aspirant to power

ELECTION 2000 may now seem long ago, but it's worth taking a moment to recall with joyful relief the butterfly ballot, the Electoral College, and the landmark Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore. For without these godsends, would-be president Al Gore wouldn't merely be delivering asinine speeches to the Commonwealth Club of California, he would be making asinine policy in the White House. Lest anyone forget how tremendously fortunate we are that the election turned out exactly the way it did, Gore inadvertently provided (at least) ten examples in Monday's address. In chronological order, they are: 1. "To begin...

<p>The erstwhile veep blames America first, while the prime minister takes a stand for freedom.</p>
<p>Former Vice President Al Gore assailed President Bush's handling of the war on terror on Monday, and it didn't take long for a rebuttal. It came yesterday from British Prime Minister Tony Blair, once Mr. Gore's ally as part of the center-left Third Way but these days a fast friend of Mr. Bush's Iraq campaign.</p>

Distasteful as it may be, some notice should be paid to the speech that the formerly important Al Gore delivered Monday at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. This speech, an attack on the Bush policy on Iraq, was Gore's big effort to distinguish himself from the Democratic pack in advance of another possible presidential run. It served: It distinguished Gore, now and forever, as someone who cannot be considered a responsible aspirant to power. Politics are allowed in politics, but there are limits, and there is a pale, and Gore has now shown himself to be ignorant of those...

<p>How would America have reacted to Sept. 11 had Al Gore been president?</p>
<p>Or, more to the point, how would Al Gore have reacted to Sept. 11?</p>
<p>Judging by his speech the other day to the Commonwealth Club of California, the answer is: Weakly.</p>
<p>Tentatively.</p>
<p>Maybe not at all.</p>

<p>Al Gore's former running mate, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, sharply disagreed yesterday with Mr. Gore's assertion that President Bush was pandering to conservative Republicans with his push for military action against Iraq.</p>
<p>"I have never said that, and I don't believe it," the Connecticut Democrat said in unusually blunt disagreement with Mr. Gore's comments. "I'm grateful President Bush wants to do this [in Iraq], and I don't question his motives."</p>

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A fierce attack on President Bush ( news - web sites)'s Iraq policy issued by former Vice President Al Gore ( news - web sites) could help galvanize U.S. opposition to a new Gulf war ( news - web sites) while serving as a launching pad for Gore's probable 2004 presidential campaign, analysts said on Tuesday. In a speech in San Francisco, the defeated 2000 Democratic presidential nominee on Monday laid out a scathing critique of Bush's Iraq policy. Pollster John Zogby said Gore's message was "very well timed." "Gore stepped in just as it appeared that...

Today, while I was listening to Rush play tapes of Al Gore's speech yesterday, I started wondering if Al Gore really always spoke like Forest Gump. Really! If you listen, it sounds like he has to rest in between syllables whenever he uses a word with more than two syllables. I cannot recall how Gore sounded back in the 80's e.g., but this is a guy who grew up in Washington DC, and then went to Harvard. His father was a Senator. I don't really recall Gore Sr., but my guess is that he went along with the prevailing wisdom...

<p>In one of the most forceful Democratic condemnations of President Bush's foreign policy, former Vice President Al Gore warned in San Francisco on Monday that a pre-emptive strike on Iraq would distract America from its war on terrorism and "weaken our ability to lead the world."</p>

RECOUNTing the MEMORIES Al Gore wants to RECOUNT the memories of his year 2000 election debacle by making another run for the presidency in 2004 - AND WE'RE AT IT AGAIN, TOO!From the crowd who created the pivotal year 2000 Sore Loserman campaign that achieved international notoriety during the post-election recount debacle and became the rallying cry for a nation fed up with Al Gore's scorched Earth politics - we bring you the political firepower of goreD in '04!goreD in '04 & FreeRepublic are ecstatic about the possibility of helping Al Gore relive those fine fond days in which everyone...

<p>MIAMI - Days after some Florida voters confronted balky touchscreen machines set up by untrained poll workers, two Los Angeles film makers are providing a window back to butterfly ballots and dimpled chads.</p>
<p>"Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election," a critical look at Florida's previous election woes, premiered this week in Miami.</p>